Yes, Christians might be offended, but: 1-You won't apply self censorship like you do about something that offends Islam. 2-You don't have a real possibility of being murdered (in the 1st world at least) just because you refuse to apply that self censorship about Catholicism (unlike with Islam).
Pretty sure Muslims worldwide will claim these findings are offensive and disrespectful to Islam and as such we will put them aside and pretend they don't exist. Which is pretty much the modus operandi from the West for anything that might offend Muslims.
Same reason we ditched Assembler somewhere in the past. Languages need to evolve, we can't be stuck with C and it's design limitations forever. C served us well, just like Assembly had done, but as compilers evolve we can proceed to higher level languages paying a very little penalty in execution time and in control.
So, you are telling me that the value of the Venezuelan Bolivar I should use for reference is the one that the street traders in some lost city of Colombia (Cúcuta) are willing to pay for it?
Well, in that case the price of Bitcoin dropped almost to zero since if I go around in the street (and well, I live in city bigger than Cúcuta by almost 1 order of magnitude) where I live and ask people to trade/accept bitcoin for payment, nobody accepts that (even the bitcoin vending machine we had is gone now).
I mean, we should compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, right?
Sorry, "Googletard" tells me that the Venezuelan Bolivar oscillated less than 150% during 2015, Bitcoin already oscillated more than 240% during 2015 even in the most stable exchanges.
Are you sure you don't have any other source for what you just claimed other than Googletard?
The US Currency scams don't cause the value of US currency to swing wildly.
The US currency is backed up by the USA government. Bitcoin is backed up by an algorithm that crunches numbers and serves absolutely no other purpose. As soon as people realize there is no point in keeping a computer crunching numbers with no practical purpose (highly likely if the price of bitcoin continues to crash), Bitcoin looses it's value. US Currency can only loose it's value when people see no point and using it to pay the USA government their taxes or any other contribution, even if they decide to stop using it for any other transaction (which is highly unlikely given the power of the US government in the national and worldwide economy).
Which can only be true if Bitcoin serves its intended purpose as a useful store of value
Not really. It just has to be a perceived a speculative asset in order to use it as a scam. A classical example is the usage of Tulip futures as an highly speculative asset during a small period of the XVII century in Holland. Clearly the tulips where certainly not an useful store of value, and yet, due to the high speculation about it's price, it became a heaven for scammers to use it, leading to a major crash that affected the Dutch economy.
Yes, I know the feeling, when we encounter such a major bug our reaction is: "this must obviously by a problem with my personal setup, there's no way the devs would let such a major flaw unsolved". But well, it's not. This is Firefox and the devs just put the bug aside, don't address it exists, and go on adding video chat and some new icons in the tab bar.
Cause Chrome just has a different version of all this stuff baked inbut it's actually stable enough to be used, unlike Firefox and its ever growing bugs.
if a tab dies, you'll still close the browser and reopen it, just in case the flaw had affected something else
No we don't, and I've never saw anyone doing that. If a tab crashes you either reload the tab or if you are paranoid you open a new tab and input the address of the crashed tab and move on.
And yet, Chrome runs much smoother and it's much stable than Firefox. Besides, if that memory is needed by some other process, Chrome doesn't stick to it.
I agree in the generality, but like what I've said, there are a lot of people complaining and bug reports about Amazon for a long time now and the devs did absolutely zero. I don't see the point in telling the devs yet again about related problems when they are just plainly ignoring major bugs about the same issue.
Everyone knows Amazon brings Firefox practically to a halt. Many people also know that Atom GitHub pages crash Firefox. These are know issues for many months and nothing (really, literally nothing) has been done about it by the devs. So, there is really no point to keep filling but reports about this issue when the devs don't even solve those related bugs that they already know that exist for a long time.
I see a lot of people telling that the Greeks are lazy and asked for money and now don't want to pay. I also see a lot of people telling that it's all the fault of EU.
Well, the thing is, this is not even the question. This that we are assisting is not about not wanting to pay, it's about a democratic elected government being able to take their own choices on how to pay it.
The EU, IMF want to dictate how the Greek government should run their country in order to get money to pay them back.
Now, look, there are two big reasons why this should be ridiculous to you: 1. If you believe in democracy, the sole prospect that an outside entity should dictate how a democratic elected government should act, it's abhorrent. 2. If you believe in logic, you will see that if the program was very definitely not working so far (and if you check the data you see it didn't work in Portugal and Spain either), then you should think a bit and see that an even worst program is also not going to work
Bottom line, what I see the new Greek government (and please notice that it's a really new government, not one of the Big Center parties that ruled Europe for the past decades) asking, is for time to implement their program and try to get out of the mess the country is in (which is fault of the previous Greek governments, the EU and the IMF).
I couldn't take it no more. The slowness, the crashing, the halting (Amazon, GitHub Atom pages, etc). So after about 2 years of fighting with Firefox I changed to Chrome about 3 months ago and I didn't look back. Sure Chrome is not perfect, but it's better than Firefox. And that's the deal right now, it comes a point when people finally fed up enough to finally ditch Firefox. Users can only put with a definite amount of bad choices by the devs and Firefox keep making worst and worst choices.
Like me, more and more people are doing the same and Firefox is being relegated to a curiosity, and that's a good thing, it may open the door to a new strong open project that poses a real alternative to Chrome.
You know. What you say would actually make sense in a world where Firefox market share remains steady. But in the real word it doesn't, Firefox market share is taking a very hard hit, so it means that no, Firefox it's not the least bad browser, Firefox is actually an worst browser for many people that stopped using it in the past months/couple of years. Myself included.
Well, I don't notice and abnormal utilisation of resources with Amazon in Chrome or Safari (OSX). But it's true that I never actively checked for it, I'm just satisfied that it works properly on the usability side in those browsers.
But Amazon it's not the only page giving problems with Firefox for me. The browser would sometimes just crash or halt with certain pages. Mostly disparate pages, but there was another page that gave a lot's of problems with Firefox as well, the GitHub pages of Atom editor packages would very ofter halt the browser and crash it. It's not a page as widely used as Amazon but it's still a page that must have ten of thousands of views a day.
Right now I'm happy with Chrome. What I missed most was tab management from Firefox (an area where Firefox excels), but since I've found the spaces extension for Chrome, I don't miss it that much. All the rest seems a bit snappier and a bit better put together in Chrome.
This was exactly the reason that gave the final push to ditch Firefox for me as well. Seriously, how can a page that's seen by millions of people everyday - Amazon - bring Firefox to a crawl and the devs instead of fixing the problem keep adding video chat to the bloated thing? It's just insane.
Perhaps Apple could build usable phones that actually last a full day on their battery instead of competing for the biggest buzzword of the moment and be able to say: "Look, this is the thinnest phone on the market". It bends easily, it breaks easily, it's got an awful battery, but ei, they can state it's the thinnest phone on the market.
You just explained exactly why the users prefer Uber.
Sure, like you said, there are nice taxis therein Poland regulated by the government. And then there are all the other scammers around.
Now, me as a tourist, I land at Krakow airport and I have no clue which is which and I may as well end up in a shitty dirty unregulated cab paying 5x the fare I was suposed to pay and I basically have no way to even complain about it. Or, I can just connect to the airport WiFi, call a Uber driver and be sure to arrive at my destination in an accountable transport that charges me the minimum fare possible for that trip.
Funny enough, just today I was watching a presentation in ESO with one of the leading scientists in this project. And it's a bit more complicated than I thought.
Unlike NASA, ESA never applied this technology, so they can't just use it in space probes. They would have to get in a partnership with NASA or to allow some years for the engineering teams working with them to find out how to use the technology correctly (we are talking about systems with very limiting energy and weight requirements here).
Then, even if they know how to apply it correctly, the probe would be launched using an Ariane taking off from French Guiana and, by French law, any nuclear device transiting in French territory would need to have an express signed order by the French president, allowing it.
I totally agree this is a baseless fear, but now, we are so deep into it that even if we wanted to use a nuclear power source, we would need to do it with great effort.
Keep adding some features coming from some pet projects of the most vocal developers that a great part of the user base doesn't care... while products that gets bloated, slower and buggy at every interaction. Somehow this doesn't seem like a good business strategy.
Personal experience: Changed to Chrome about 3 months ago... since I learned to live with the definitively less advanced tab management, everything has been better. Much faster and less buggy.
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Yes, Christians might be offended, but: 1-You won't apply self censorship like you do about something that offends Islam. 2-You don't have a real possibility of being murdered (in the 1st world at least) just because you refuse to apply that self censorship about Catholicism (unlike with Islam).
/sarc: Yes, most scientific facts only exist to insult religion... specially Islam which is pretty good at feeling insulted all the time.
Pretty sure Muslims worldwide will claim these findings are offensive and disrespectful to Islam and as such we will put them aside and pretend they don't exist. Which is pretty much the modus operandi from the West for anything that might offend Muslims.
Same reason we ditched Assembler somewhere in the past. Languages need to evolve, we can't be stuck with C and it's design limitations forever. C served us well, just like Assembly had done, but as compilers evolve we can proceed to higher level languages paying a very little penalty in execution time and in control.
So, you are telling me that the value of the Venezuelan Bolivar I should use for reference is the one that the street traders in some lost city of Colombia (Cúcuta) are willing to pay for it?
Well, in that case the price of Bitcoin dropped almost to zero since if I go around in the street (and well, I live in city bigger than Cúcuta by almost 1 order of magnitude) where I live and ask people to trade/accept bitcoin for payment, nobody accepts that (even the bitcoin vending machine we had is gone now).
I mean, we should compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, right?
Sorry, "Googletard" tells me that the Venezuelan Bolivar oscillated less than 150% during 2015, Bitcoin already oscillated more than 240% during 2015 even in the most stable exchanges.
Are you sure you don't have any other source for what you just claimed other than Googletard?
Bitcoin price dropped more than 20% in the last 48h
Bitcoin has been more stable than multiple national currencies (Venezuela being only a recent example).
Source?
The US Currency scams don't cause the value of US currency to swing wildly.
The US currency is backed up by the USA government. Bitcoin is backed up by an algorithm that crunches numbers and serves absolutely no other purpose. As soon as people realize there is no point in keeping a computer crunching numbers with no practical purpose (highly likely if the price of bitcoin continues to crash), Bitcoin looses it's value. US Currency can only loose it's value when people see no point and using it to pay the USA government their taxes or any other contribution, even if they decide to stop using it for any other transaction (which is highly unlikely given the power of the US government in the national and worldwide economy).
Which can only be true if Bitcoin serves its intended purpose as a useful store of value
Not really. It just has to be a perceived a speculative asset in order to use it as a scam. A classical example is the usage of Tulip futures as an highly speculative asset during a small period of the XVII century in Holland. Clearly the tulips where certainly not an useful store of value, and yet, due to the high speculation about it's price, it became a heaven for scammers to use it, leading to a major crash that affected the Dutch economy.
Damn, I thought that was just me.
Yes, I know the feeling, when we encounter such a major bug our reaction is: "this must obviously by a problem with my personal setup, there's no way the devs would let such a major flaw unsolved". But well, it's not. This is Firefox and the devs just put the bug aside, don't address it exists, and go on adding video chat and some new icons in the tab bar.
Cause Chrome just has a different version of all this stuff baked in but it's actually stable enough to be used, unlike Firefox and its ever growing bugs.
if a tab dies, you'll still close the browser and reopen it, just in case the flaw had affected something else
No we don't, and I've never saw anyone doing that. If a tab crashes you either reload the tab or if you are paranoid you open a new tab and input the address of the crashed tab and move on.
And yet, Chrome runs much smoother and it's much stable than Firefox. Besides, if that memory is needed by some other process, Chrome doesn't stick to it.
I agree in the generality, but like what I've said, there are a lot of people complaining and bug reports about Amazon for a long time now and the devs did absolutely zero. I don't see the point in telling the devs yet again about related problems when they are just plainly ignoring major bugs about the same issue.
Seriously, what's the point?
Everyone knows Amazon brings Firefox practically to a halt. Many people also know that Atom GitHub pages crash Firefox. These are know issues for many months and nothing (really, literally nothing) has been done about it by the devs. So, there is really no point to keep filling but reports about this issue when the devs don't even solve those related bugs that they already know that exist for a long time.
I see a lot of people telling that the Greeks are lazy and asked for money and now don't want to pay. I also see a lot of people telling that it's all the fault of EU.
Well, the thing is, this is not even the question. This that we are assisting is not about not wanting to pay, it's about a democratic elected government being able to take their own choices on how to pay it.
The EU, IMF want to dictate how the Greek government should run their country in order to get money to pay them back.
Now, look, there are two big reasons why this should be ridiculous to you: 1. If you believe in democracy, the sole prospect that an outside entity should dictate how a democratic elected government should act, it's abhorrent. 2. If you believe in logic, you will see that if the program was very definitely not working so far (and if you check the data you see it didn't work in Portugal and Spain either), then you should think a bit and see that an even worst program is also not going to work
Bottom line, what I see the new Greek government (and please notice that it's a really new government, not one of the Big Center parties that ruled Europe for the past decades) asking, is for time to implement their program and try to get out of the mess the country is in (which is fault of the previous Greek governments, the EU and the IMF).
I couldn't take it no more. The slowness, the crashing, the halting (Amazon, GitHub Atom pages, etc). So after about 2 years of fighting with Firefox I changed to Chrome about 3 months ago and I didn't look back. Sure Chrome is not perfect, but it's better than Firefox. And that's the deal right now, it comes a point when people finally fed up enough to finally ditch Firefox. Users can only put with a definite amount of bad choices by the devs and Firefox keep making worst and worst choices.
Like me, more and more people are doing the same and Firefox is being relegated to a curiosity, and that's a good thing, it may open the door to a new strong open project that poses a real alternative to Chrome.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
You know. What you say would actually make sense in a world where Firefox market share remains steady. But in the real word it doesn't, Firefox market share is taking a very hard hit, so it means that no, Firefox it's not the least bad browser, Firefox is actually an worst browser for many people that stopped using it in the past months/couple of years. Myself included.
Well, I don't notice and abnormal utilisation of resources with Amazon in Chrome or Safari (OSX). But it's true that I never actively checked for it, I'm just satisfied that it works properly on the usability side in those browsers.
But Amazon it's not the only page giving problems with Firefox for me. The browser would sometimes just crash or halt with certain pages. Mostly disparate pages, but there was another page that gave a lot's of problems with Firefox as well, the GitHub pages of Atom editor packages would very ofter halt the browser and crash it. It's not a page as widely used as Amazon but it's still a page that must have ten of thousands of views a day.
Right now I'm happy with Chrome. What I missed most was tab management from Firefox (an area where Firefox excels), but since I've found the spaces extension for Chrome, I don't miss it that much. All the rest seems a bit snappier and a bit better put together in Chrome.
This was exactly the reason that gave the final push to ditch Firefox for me as well. Seriously, how can a page that's seen by millions of people everyday - Amazon - bring Firefox to a crawl and the devs instead of fixing the problem keep adding video chat to the bloated thing? It's just insane.
Perhaps Apple could build usable phones that actually last a full day on their battery instead of competing for the biggest buzzword of the moment and be able to say: "Look, this is the thinnest phone on the market". It bends easily, it breaks easily, it's got an awful battery, but ei, they can state it's the thinnest phone on the market.
You just explained exactly why the users prefer Uber.
Sure, like you said, there are nice taxis therein Poland regulated by the government. And then there are all the other scammers around.
Now, me as a tourist, I land at Krakow airport and I have no clue which is which and I may as well end up in a shitty dirty unregulated cab paying 5x the fare I was suposed to pay and I basically have no way to even complain about it. Or, I can just connect to the airport WiFi, call a Uber driver and be sure to arrive at my destination in an accountable transport that charges me the minimum fare possible for that trip.
Guess which one the users choose.
Funny enough, just today I was watching a presentation in ESO with one of the leading scientists in this project. And it's a bit more complicated than I thought.
Unlike NASA, ESA never applied this technology, so they can't just use it in space probes. They would have to get in a partnership with NASA or to allow some years for the engineering teams working with them to find out how to use the technology correctly (we are talking about systems with very limiting energy and weight requirements here).
Then, even if they know how to apply it correctly, the probe would be launched using an Ariane taking off from French Guiana and, by French law, any nuclear device transiting in French territory would need to have an express signed order by the French president, allowing it.
I totally agree this is a baseless fear, but now, we are so deep into it that even if we wanted to use a nuclear power source, we would need to do it with great effort.
Keep adding some features coming from some pet projects of the most vocal developers that a great part of the user base doesn't care... while products that gets bloated, slower and buggy at every interaction. Somehow this doesn't seem like a good business strategy.
Personal experience: Changed to Chrome about 3 months ago... since I learned to live with the definitively less advanced tab management, everything has been better. Much faster and less buggy.